Ed Gillespie, counselor to the president emails Steve Capus, the president of NBC, to ask why President Bush's comments were selectively edited by NBC correspondent Richard Engel:

Mr. Capus, I'm sure you don't want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the "news" as reported on NBC and the "opinion" as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines. I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network's viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don't hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.

Of course, that doesn't excuse the selective distortion of a quote, whether written or recorded. But then that's a pretty well established old media trend popularized by another institution that's increasingly happy to admit its own biases.